"Damn! They've found us! ”

In the monitoring room of the underground facility, looking at the figure that appeared on the screen that was finally repaired, the staff sitting in front of the terminal exclaimed.

A hint of panic flashed across Arzu's face.

Although he often acted with the executioners of the Inquisition before being entrusted with the important task by the Holy Son, and experienced the front-line battlefield, he was not a professional combatant after all, not to mention that even a professional combatant may not be the opponent of so many regular troops.

Most of the Torch Church's research facilities are built on the Vault, similar to the Enlightenment and even the Alliance.

This underground facility is no exception, originally known as Vault 182, which was opened in the early wasteland era and later converted by the Torch Church into Biological Research Institute 182, which is dedicated to the study of gestalt lifeforms and their sub-projects.

The entrance to the facility was in the center of the old site of Fort Town, and at this moment the Coalition was sending two platoons of troops to search this direction.

The hearts of all the staff members rose to their throats, and all their faces were filled with panicked expressions.

"I guess the mutants on the ground have exposed our tracks......" an older researcher swallowed and scolded, "These pigs who have not done enough and have more than enough to lose!" ”

The researcher standing next to him said nervously.

"Mutants...... Why are mutants here?! ”

Another researcher with glasses said with a solemn expression.

"The devil knows...... Eighty percent of them were running over to ask what was going on. Damn it...... These idiots aren't going to improvise! ”

Judging from the above picture on the surveillance, there are not only a few mutants hiding in this area, there is a team of 100 people!

He couldn't help but wonder if these idiots could be deserters withdrawn from the front!

Some of the researchers were arguing, and some were secretly rejoicing.

The latter are mainly researchers from the North Island.

If it weren't for Charas holding a gun at gunpoint and being threatened by the people here to install some brainwashing chip, the ghost would have been willing to come to this bird place to design equipment for mutants.

Although they didn't dare to show it on their faces, they were the happiest at the moment.

Now that the Coalition has landed on the Death Coast, Charas must be finished.

Although they are not out of danger yet, at least their families are safe.

Ignoring the chatter and bickering of the staff, Arzu simply urged the communications engineer who was in charge of repairing the communication equipment.

"How long will it take to fix it?"

"Hurry, hurry! Give me another 10 minutes! The engineer pointed at a tablet, his index finger crackling against the touchscreen, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

In the flat screen is a thumb-sized, insect-shaped robot, currently lying in a dense thread rubbing a needle-like mechanical arm, and from the tip of the electric light from time to time.

Finally, just as his sweat dripped on the floor for the Nth time, the insect-like circuit maintenance robot finally completed all the welding operations and repaired the circuit section that had been burned by the electromagnetic pulse.

He let out a sigh and leaned back in his chair, wiping the sweat from his forehead and said happily.

"It's done—"

Before he could finish his words, he was pushed away by Arzu, who was standing next to him.

The latter hurriedly snatched the tablet and crackled his index finger on it a few times to connect to the court in the rear.

When he saw the [Communication Connected] icon appear on the screen, a hint of ecstasy appeared on his face for a moment, and he grabbed his headphones and put them on and yelled desperately.

"Call the Inquisition, this is Institute 182! The Coalition is closing in on us, and we need support! ”

Research Institute 182 has a lot of information about the Gestalt project, and the Inquisition will not leave them alone!

Compared to those mutant cannon fodder, those combat elites who hold the equipment of the pre-war era produced in the black box are the real trump cards of the Torch Church!

After a brief silence, a calm, reliable voice came from the other end of the communication channel.

“…… This is the Disciplinary Team, we have been ordered to go to your neighborhood, please keep the door closed and be patient! ”

Hearing this heavenly sound, Arzu clenched his fists excitedly.

There is salvation!

On the other side, there is a mountainous area just 2 kilometers away from the underground facilities.

Approximately 40 soldiers wearing exoskeletons are quietly lurking at the edge of the jungle, their almost completely transparent silhouettes completely integrated with their surroundings.

Under the action of optical camouflage devices, no one can catch their traces with the naked eye, as long as they remain still.

Standing in the middle of the line, the captain-like man stared grimly in the direction of Fort Town, his index finger tapping on his helmet.

"This is the 'Hunter', and we have reached the vicinity of the target...... Confirmed that the target was hit by an EMP attack and lost contact. ”

The voice of the Son was heard through the communication channel.

"How's the battle?"

The man called the Hunter said in a deep voice.

"The coalition has landed on the shore, and the local garrison has lost completely."

There was silence in the communication channel for a moment, and it was about half a minute before he continued.

“…… Bring back the materials from Arzu and the institute, and try to take the others with them, and dispose of those who can't be taken away. ”

A twinkle flashed in the hunter's eyes.

"Yes."

……

At the same time that Arzu called for reinforcements from the Inquisition, two platoons of a battalion and a company of the Burning Corps had arrived at the edge of the fortress town, which was located in the middle of the forest.

The settlement resembles a castle, and the terraced houses on the periphery resemble a high wall.

The windows on the first floor start from a height of 6 meters, and without exception they are equipped with security nets wrapped in steel wires. The tallest windows are more than 20 meters, and the roof is designed as a firing platform with cover.

The townhouses are only three or five steps wide, and there is a crooked covered bridge, which looks like the gatehouse of the city wall from a distance.

You can imagine how the survivors resisted the raiders of their homes when there were still people in this settlement in the past.

They piled up obstacles on the covered bridge, stood on the roof and shot at the intruders, and when the intruders had crossed the bottom of the covered bridge, they dropped the obstacles, dividing the intruders' ranks into two sections.

But these valiant men are gone, and only a few green heads are left to poke their heads out there.

[One step to the sky] opened the VM and retrieved the information he had downloaded from the official website before.

"I heard that more than ten years ago, there was a survivor self-help alliance called the 'Iron Tower' in this area, and they used the signal tower of the People's Union era as a symbol to form a militia to patrol between the various gathering places...... It's a bit like us. ”

"There is information about this settlement on the official website, and it is said that it was an outpost established on the surface of Vault 182 in the early days, but later for some reason Vault 182 and surface outpost were abandoned, and it was not until around the 100th century of the Wasteland Era that the facilities here were repurposed by a group of wastelanders, and the buildings on the periphery were widened and improved."

Then the 'Tower' group was born and took over the settlement, and the population of the latter slowly grew from a few hundred to 20,000...... It wasn't until the torch came here that the number was cleared to zero. ”

In fact, even if the ruins of this settlement are not within the scope of the Alliance's three-phase offensive, they will return to search for it after the landing operation is completed.

However, just now, their drone spotted the traces of mutant activity in this area, so the Dagger Killer asked them to come here in advance to see if there were any big fish.

The two players who followed next to him couldn't help but complain when they heard what Dengtian said.

"It's okay to clear zero......"

"What a hell of a joke."

"That's what is written in the canonical book, and I just read it, and I have opinions to ask for planning."

Holding the camera of his brother, he took a few photos of the exterior of the settlement.

The camera was the only relic left in the world by his good brother, though the dog would be alive in a few days.

“…… In other words, the settlements in this wasteland are really strange. "There are slums of millions of people like the port of Kinggallen, there are also craters like the craters stacked with lattice and blocks, and there are also this kind of earthen cannon towers." ”

"Wasteland, after all." Half a year old teased.

"There are three mutants operating at the door...... I can't see the situation inside," he put down the camera, stepped up to the sky to look at Lao Yin, and asked with his eyes, "Do you want to do it directly?" Let's dive in first and see what's going on inside. ”

"It's too troublesome," [Mistaken] raised his right hand into a fist and made an offensive gesture to his teammates behind him, "Kill all the beasts here, and then slowly figure out what's in here." ”

"Killing all people is the perfect infiltration," the half-year-old excitedly picked up the rifle hanging on his chest and loaded it with a click, "Work work, work!" ”

The mutants standing at the entrance to the colony didn't know that disaster was on the horizon and were still humming and communicating.

At this moment, three gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, and the three heads burst into a bloody mist in unison, and the red and white slammed to the ground.

"Alliance!!"

Finding the sentry at the door down, the mutant standing behind the gatehouse yelled, then grabbed his rifle and fired at the door, and then suddenly didn't see anyone for a long time.

As soon as it emptied the magazine, it hastily tore off the magazine and tried to replace it with a new one, but before it could insert the new magazine, a quadcopter drone with a barrel crossed the porch and killed it, and the sudden sound of gunfire exploded its head.

By mistake, he led the three players behind him into the alley, and the rifle in his hand shot out suddenly, killing several mutants who tried to surround him one after another.

At the same time, the three squads of the first platoon dispersed into nine squads and fought into the abandoned town from nine directions, while the second platoon went around the flank of the town to feint and distract the mutant fire.

Faced with simultaneous attacks from several directions, the mutants in the town were stunned.

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground in the alley, a power-based player reloaded the magazine and couldn't help but tease.

"The mutants in Clear Springs are much smarter than this thing."

The other player next to him was succinct.

"It's quite a dish, I guess it's a recruit."

Mutants aren't actually stupid, they're just a little grumpy.

According to veteran players, the mutants they met on the outskirts of Qingquan City long ago not only made mines and traps, but even made their own rifles.

In the end, it was the friends of the Pioneer who intervened and wiped out the brutes.

At that time, the battle footage can still be found on the official website forum, but there is no bragging or anything.

However, the mutants here are completely different, let alone using the terrain to fight, and they don't even understand the guys in their hands.

The Torch Church seems to have produced a group of mutants through some special method, but these mutants are far inferior in mind and experience to the naturally growing green-skinned animals, just like the eight-fold growth clones of the Legion.

60 people against 100!

There was no suspense in the whole battle, and it completely turned into a one-sided slaughter!

Seeing that this group of mutants is so easy to deal with, some players can't help but drift a little.

However, at this moment, a change suddenly happened.

A team of four was trying to search through the alley into the square in the center of the town, but a "bang" gunshot suddenly rang out from the front, and the player who walked in front was instantly shot in the head.

"Sniper!"

"Spread out!"

The remaining three were shocked, and they stopped gagging in the communication channel, and quickly flashed to the bunkers on both sides.

One player hides behind a concrete pier.

The other two players smashed open the window and tumbled into the house on the side of the alley.

However, there was another thud.

The squad leader, who had just turned over and hid in the house, happened to see with his peripheral vision that the teammate hiding behind the cement pier was shot through by the company with cover, and the flesh and cement slag were shattered.

"Damn?! What the hell is this? ”

The player's eyes widened as he leaned by the window, and he looked like he had seen a ghost.

They fought from the edge of the town to the center of the town, and no one died, only to be knocked down by two shots in just a few seconds!

"It's a Gauss rifle!"

The squad leader who was squatting next to him looked solemn, looked at the direction where the two teammates fell, and shouted into the walkie-talkie while comparing the map on the VM to circle the buildings in front of him.

"Team A picks up the enemy! Team B and Team C disperse! Press it from both sides and wait for the air raid to follow the firefight! ”

Given the order to the other two squads, the squad leader switched the communication channel and continued to yell loudly.

“…… Here is a platoon and two squads, and we encounter enemy snipers! That guy brought down two of our brothers! We need Air Force support! ”

After hearing his voice, an answer quickly came from the other end of the communication channel.

"Roger, can you locate them?"

The captain glanced out the window, didn't dare to stick his head out, let alone expose himself by the window, so he could only grit his teeth and say.

"The exact location is uncertain, but we've circled the approximate location on the map...... Those guys are definitely not mutants! It should be the Inquisition of the Torch! ”

"Understood, the coordinates are synchronized to the Air Force...... It's there in less than a minute! ”

Hanging up the communication, the captain gave the team next to him a look, and the latter took out the drone from behind his back, leaned down and touched the other side of the building and threw it.

The quadcopter drone flipped in the air, quickly stabilized its figure, and buzzed towards the sky.

The drone camera quickly locked onto the approximate area where the sniper was located, providing the camera lens and relative coordinates to the approaching P-2 Lightning.

The two squads, Team B and Team C, had already touched the vicinity of the sniper and were nervously counting down.

A minute was as long as a century, and the two sides confronted each other in silence.

And at this moment, the explosion of the machine cannon bombarding the ground suddenly resounded throughout the square!

Hundreds of large-caliber cannon bullets rained down in an instant, crushing an entire dilapidated complex on the north side of the square.

It wasn't until the explosion of fire and dust rose into the sky that the roar of cannon fire and the roar of attack engine engines belatedly swept over the players' heads.

"Porphyry——!

Looking at the flying figure, the morale of the players on the ground was greatly boosted.

With the dust kicked up by the explosion, the squad leader quickly jumped out of cover with a roll, driving the exoskeleton to chase after the billowing dust while shouting loudly in the communication channel.

"Fence it out!"

The three squads sprang into action, attacking the cannon swept ruins from three directions, and sure enough, they spotted the retreating sniper, as well as another soldier wearing an exoskeleton who was following him.

It's the Inquisition of the Torch!

Seeing the equipment on these people's bodies, the player recognizes their identities at a glance.

However, no one was afraid, but there was a look of surprise on their faces.

"Good fellow, Inquisition!"

"Elite monsters! Brush the elite monster! ”

Although the two executioners were not killed by the air strike, they were obviously not badly injured, and they did not dare to entangle with the surrounding players, and quickly retreated to the rear.

Seeing that the elite monster was about to run away, a group of players were willing to let him go, and they chased after him.

Then, after not following a few steps down the crooked alley, the captain sensed that something was wrong.

How do these two elite monsters feel like they're seducing them?

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that there was something wrong with this, and he immediately reset the coordinates of the rally point on the VM map.

"Stop the pursuit! The second squad members listen to the order! Defend everyone in place! ”

They were a little far away from their teammates.

If the executioners of the Inquisition are in ambush in front, they can easily be eaten by the other side.

Although there was a risk of letting the two snipers go, he did not dare to gamble with his teammates' resurrection CDs and equipment.

These guys are not easy to deal with!

Thinking of this, a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes, and sweat oozed from his palms.

But not because of fear.

It's because of the excitement!

They have been abusing vegetables all this time, and finally have a chance to fight against the strong!

There was a rustling sound in the communication channel.

Team B Captain: "Isn't the leader chasing after you?" ”

Team C Captain: "Still chasing a fart!" Didn't you notice these two elite monsters kiting us? ”

Team B Captain: "?! ”

At the same time that the players stopped pursuing, the two snipers who were retreating gradually noticed the situation behind them, and the soldiers who were chasing them suddenly stopped chasing.

The two looked at each other, and one of the observers immediately reported the situation to the rear.

"The fish unhooked, and the enemy team stopped pursuit."

At the same time, the hunter who was ambushed in a three-story building hundreds of meters away furrowed his brows.

The entrance to the underground facility is in the square, which has been controlled by Union soldiers.

At the moment the battle on the beach is over, and they must end it before the reinforcements of the alliance arrive!

There is no longer time to hesitate.

It only took a few seconds to make a judgment, and the hunter did not hesitate to order in the communication channel.

"The first and second teams are moving forward, and the third and fourth teams are outflanking from the flanks!"

"Quick Fix!"

"Yes!" A sonorous reply resounded through the communication channel, and a figure lurking in the shadow of an abandoned building stepped out of the environment that almost merged with them, and surrounded the Alliance team that had stopped pursuing.

At the same time, the other two squads of the first platoon also sensed that the situation was wrong, and called the second platoon to move forward and immediately reinforce in the direction of the second squad.

At this moment, the news that the troops searching for the ruins of Fort Town had encountered the Inquisition of the Torch Church reached Lao Bai, who was directing the construction of the camp and dock on the beachhead.

After glancing at the map twice against the information, Lao Bai only took two seconds to make a judgment.

"Eighty percent is a big fish!"

"I think so too," Fang Chang nodded and touched his chin with interest, "Why don't I bring a team of reinforcements over and take a look." ”

According to what they gathered, there was the remains of a Vault there, and although it was abandoned for more than a century, it was not ruled out that the Torch Church might have converted it into a research facility.

A similar situation has occurred on the Northern Front.

Lao Bai smiled heartily and patted him on the shoulder.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you!"

The fighting on the beach is basically over, and there is not a shortage of manpower at the moment.

The 10,000 mutant teams defending the position were completely broken up by them, and they were running towards the rear like headless flies, and the rest of the work was to clean up the battlefield and build docks, but he didn't need to watch here.

After coming out of the command tent, Fang Chang immediately took a company of players to get on the "Chimera" infantry chariot that had just landed on the floating dock, and applied for two Cloud Fly Ornithopters from the NPC troops as support, and killed them in the direction of Fort Town.

And just as he arrived at the battlefield, the two platoons of a battalion and a company were fighting inextricably with the Inquisition squad of the Torch Church, and the sound of firefighting resounded in the ruins.

Judging from the steady and ruthless rhythm of the attack, these guys should be the same as the people they used to be in the eastern suburbs of Qingquan City and the Pinecone Farm, the so-called "executioners" in the Inquisition of the Torch Church!

Seeing the reinforcements of the alliance on the battlefield, the hunters who were fighting on the front line couldn't help but have a touch of despair in their eyes.

It's so fast!

As at the time of the landing, the guys did not drag their actions at all, and the landing craft and armored vehicles immediately pounced after the strategic missiles were fired,

Their side has just figured out the reason for the loss of contact with the front-line command post, and the coalition landing force has already broken through the defense line they have laid on the beachhead!

It was the same now, they had been exchanging fire with the Coalition reconnaissance force that had searched near Fort Town for less than 20 minutes, and the large force behind had already come up with reinforcements.

There is not a single chance!

If they continue to be entangled in this way, they will no longer just face a few ten-man teams, but will face encirclement and suppression by battalion-level or even regiment-level combat units.

Looking at the dozen or so corpses thrown by both sides, as well as the position that could not be attacked for a long time, the hunter finally gritted his teeth and roared in the communication channel.

"Withdraw!"

Throwing these words, he immediately turned around and disappeared into the shadow of the complexes of the settlement, not daring to linger here for a moment.

The other squads were the same, just before the "Cloudfly" ornithopter was about to arrive at the battlefield, they all turned around and withdrew from the battlefield, hiding in the shadows.

The mission has failed.

All that can be done now is to reduce the losses.

However, the hearts of almost all of the executioners were heavy.

Although their faith is extremely pious, and they have no doubt about the supreme Son, they do not want to see the slightest hope of victory, and even the "good news" has become a luxury......

The pressure on the front line dropped sharply, and the players crouching behind cover finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this battle was quite cool for them, the equipment of this group of opponents was really strong, and it was a bit outrageous, almost all of them were optically invisible, plus self-aiming locks, and they almost snatched the position from them several times.

If the reinforcements were another 10 minutes or so late, it would be hard to say whether this would be the case or not.

Looking at the Fang Chang who walked to the front line, he walked up by mistake to direct the battle on the front line, and reported the beginning and end of the encounter and the casualties.

“…… We were in a firefight with mutants at first, and then these guys popped up. I have a feeling they were trying to take something with them, but they probably didn't succeed. ”

"These people are not stupid, they know that even if they continue to fight, there is no point, so they decisively chose to retreat," Fang Chang glanced around, narrowed his eyes slightly, and a faint smile curled into the corners of his mouth, "Soon we will know what they desperately want to take away." ”

At the same time as he finished speaking, a player who had been following him in reinforcements walked in.

"We found an underground passage underneath the public restrooms in the plaza, which is suspected to be the entrance to Vault 182."

Hearing the location of this entrance, the erroneous eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.

"These guys have a lot of taste."

"It's not necessarily the taste of these guys, what if it was designed by the gang before the war?" Fang Chang smiled and quipped, then looked at the player who came to report and said, "Let's go, let's go down and take a look together and see what is hidden in this vault." ”

In the case of abandoned and restored shelters, the security procedures may not be the original pre-war ones, and it is possible to remove the curfew through external hacking procedures.

It depends on the reason why the vault was abandoned, what the last administrator made for the vault, and how the successor inherited it.

For the shelter that is restarted in an abnormal way, it can be unlocked with an official offline key, and the slightly more complicated access control procedure is just a matter of setting up an antenna and connecting to a network.

These are all lessons learned from players who are active in Pioneer City, and they can certainly be used in other areas of the wasteland.

Hearing that the blind box was going to be opened, the faces of the players suddenly showed eager expressions.

"Let's go!"

"Haha, hurry up!"

Meanwhile, Arzu was pacing back and forth near the buffer door of the vault, cursing and cursing from time to time.

"Why the hell, why is it so slow?"

What are these guys grinding around!

He had backed up all the materials in the vault on the chip in his brain, and deleted everything that could be deleted from the original files, and messed up as much as possible if he couldn't, just so that he could slip away faster when retreating.

Just then, a staff member panicked through the buffer door and ran in front of him.

"Mr. Arzu...... They're coming! ”

Arzu's face was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Coming?! Then don't open the door yet! ”

Seeing that he was still talking in his dreams here, the staff was so anxious that they were about to cry.

"No, it's not the Inquisition, it's the Alliance!"

It was only a moment's effort, and the old face under the hood quickly lost its blood, and his lips were blue and white.

The coalition is coming......

How can it be?!

In a trance, he saw the gear-shaped gate suddenly shake and roll to one side under the traction of the mechanical cantilever.

The staff who came to report the news were startled, and sat down on the ground directly when they saw this scene.

As for Arzu, he had completely stopped moving, and stood there stunned as if he had fallen into a daze.

The huge gear-shaped door slowly opened.

A man in power armor stands in the doorway.

I saw that the man was carrying his left arm, and in his right hand he was carrying a data cable drawn from the armor of his left arm.

The thread seemed to be about to be inserted somewhere in the door, but it hadn't been plugged in yet.

Looking at the old man in the gray robe standing at the door, and the man sitting on the ground next to the old man, Fang Chang was obviously stunned for a moment, and muttered something in his mouth.

"Blame ......"

He hasn't done it yet.

Why did this door open on its own?

(End of chapter)